School Research: Hope Arts High School


Author: Chloe Blau
District: Providence, Rhode Island
School: Hope Arts


A. Information Works

When you researched the community and district, you were provided tables to help with the task of making sense of the various graphs available on Information Works site. For your school report, you should make sense of the data one your own. Remember that you can email your instructor if you have any difficulties.

To research your school, you should consider the questions about schools that we brainstormed in class and decide on some questions that YOU think should be answered in your description of your school You should research at least four of the indicators on the school report page for your school to gather information that you feel will serve as evidence for your description.

Questions that you would like to find answers for:






1. Name of Indicator: Assessments


Data:
Grade 11 Math: 0% Proficient with Distinction, 10% Proficient
Grade 11 Reading: 10% Proficient with Distinction, 54% Proficient
Grade 11 Writing: 3% Proficient with Distinction, 22% Proficient

SAT Scores:
Math:

School: 346
State: 487

Reading:

School: 373
State: 483

Writing:

School: 353
State: 479

Percent of Students Taking SAT's:

School: 48%
State: 57%


Summary statement:

Hope Arts High school needs a lot of improvement in its assessments. When it comes to Grade 11 state-wide testing, only 10% of students of the students are proficient in mathematics, 64% proficient with/without distinction in reading, and 25% proficient with/without distinction in writing. In all subjects of the SAT's, Mathematics, Reading, and Writing, Hope Arts is over 100 points below the state average, but a good percentage of the students do take the exam. Overall, Hope Arts could use improvement in its assessments.


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B. SALT Reports

In addition to survey data reported in Information Works, the SALT Surveys and the SALT visit report provides an "on the ground" description of what a group of visiting evaluators found while visiting the school for several days. After learning more about the SALT cycle from the link above, review the most recent report for your school and summarize what you find:

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